Changes in Ecclesiastical Jurisdictionsin Austria | ![]() |
| Date | Change |
| 250 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lauriacum was established |
| 250 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tiburnia was established |
| 300 | Diocese of Virunum was established |
| 400 | Diocese of Juvavo was established |
| 482 | Diocese of Juvavo was suppressed |
| 500 | Diocese of Aguntum was established |
| 500 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lauriacum was suppressed |
| 590 | Diocese of Virunum was suppressed |
| 600 | Diocese of Aguntum was suppressed |
| 600 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tiburnia was suppressed |
| 696 | Abbacy nullius of Stift Sankt Peter Salzburg was restored (from former Diocese of Virunum) |
| 739 | Abbacy nullius of Stift Sankt Peter Salzburg was promoted as Diocese of Salzburg (lost territory to establish Diocese of Freising) |
| 798.04.20 | Diocese of Salzburg was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg (with suffragan sees Brixen, Freising, Neuburg, Passau and Regensburg) |
| 1071.03.06 | Diocese of Gurk was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
| 1131 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Gurk |
| 1218.06.22 | Diocese of Seckau was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
| 1227 | Territorial Abbacy of Wettingen-Mehrerau was established |
| 1228.05.10 | Diocese of Lavant was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
| 1469.01.18 | Diocese of Wien was established (from Diocese of Passau and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
| 1469.01.18 | Diocese of Wiener Neustadt was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
| 1722.06.01 | Diocese of Wien was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Wien |
| 1778 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Brixen |
| 1785.01.28 | Diocese of Linz was established (from Diocese of Passau and became suffragan of Wien) |
| 1785.01.28 | Diocese of Sankt Pölten was established (from Diocese of Passau, from the suppressed Diocese of Wiener Neustadt and became suffragan of Wien) |
| 1785.01.28 | Diocese of Wiener Neustadt was suppressed (to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Wien and to establish Diocese of Sankt Pölten) |
| 1786.04.29 | Diocese of Leoben was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg and Diocese of Passau and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
| 1787 | Diocese of Lavant lost territory to Diocese of Gurk |
| 1787 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Gurk and Diocese of Seckau |
| 1803 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Brixen |
| 1807 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg exchanged territory with Diocese of Passau |
| 1813 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Passau |
| 1822 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Passau |
| 1857.05.20 | Diocese of Lavant lost territory to Diocese of Gurk |
| 1857.11.26 | Diocese of Leoben was suppressed (to Diocese of Seckau) |
| 1922.05.18 | Apostolic Administration of Burgenland was established (from Diocese of Győr and Diocese of Szombathely) |
| 1925.12.11 | Apostolic Administration of Innsbruck–Feldkirch was established (from Diocese of Brixen) |
| 1933.02.20 | Diocese of Gurk lost territory to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Udine |
| 1937 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Wien lost territory to Diocese of Brno |
| 1945.10.03 | Ordinariate of Ordinariat d’Autriche de rite oriental (Eastern Rite) was established |
| 1959.02.21 | Military Vicariate of Austria was established |
| 1960.08.15 | Apostolic Administration of Burgenland was promoted as Diocese of Eisenstadt (became suffragan of Wien) |
| 1962.03.05 | Diocese of Lavant was suppressed (to establish Diocese of Maribor and united to Diocese of Maribor) |
| 1963.04.22 | Diocese of Seckau was renamed as Diocese of Graz–Seckau |
| 1964.08.06 | Apostolic Administration of Innsbruck–Feldkirch was promoted as Diocese of Innsbruck–Feldkirch (became suffragan of Salzburg) |
| 1968 | Titular Episcopal See of Aguntum was restored |
| 1968 | Titular Metropolitan See of Lauriacum was restored |
| 1968 | Titular Metropolitan See of Tiburnia was restored |
| 1968 | Titular Episcopal See of Virunum was restored |
| 1968.12.08 | Diocese of Feldkirch was established (from Diocese of Innsbruck–Feldkirch and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
| 1968.12.08 | Diocese of Innsbruck–Feldkirch was renamed as Diocese of Innsbruck (lost territory to establish Diocese of Feldkirch) |
| 1986.07.21 | Military Vicariate of Austria was promoted as Military Ordinariate of Katholische Militärseelsorge Österreich |
| 1989 | Titular Episcopal See of Wiener Neustadt was restored |
| 2014.11.14 | Diocese of Sankt Pölten lost territory to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Wien |
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